gut eingestellt

16:00 Jun 25, 2020 

Hi David, I totally agree with this and never argued the contrary :-) All I am saying is that both "Die Patientin ist sehr gut eingestellt" and "Die Plaque-Psoriasis ist sehr gut eingestellt" are phrases that may be used by German doctors. Both statements indicate that the patient's disease is well controlled, and the former may additionally imply that the patient tolerates the treatment well.

20:53 Jun 24, 2020 

Please don't take offence, but a person canNOT be "controlled" by a medication. A medication can keep a condition under control, but that's a different kettle of fish.
What the doctors have done is ADJUST the dosage in stages to establish the optimum dose, and this unfortunate patient has had her condition under control for the past year with a well-adjusted dosage of medicine X.
Das "Einstellen" ist mir ein Begriff, die ich gut kenne, weil meine Frau hatte ziemliche Probleme mit dem Einstellen eines Schilddrüsenpräparates.

BUT...I repeat a medicine cannot control a person.

15:25 Jun 23, 2020 

Trust us betriebsblind German doctors! The object of "einstellen" are either (chronic) diseases or patients affected by such diseases, even if the "Einstellung" happens by means of some medication. In the present case, the object is (grammatically) ambiguous and may either be the 42-year old patient or her plaque psoriasis, but the message in either case is that this patient's plaque psoriasis is well controlled on drug X. (You could probably make an equivalent statement using "adjusted" and "medication", but it would not be typical 'medicalese'.)

12:48 Jun 23, 2020 

Are all the doctors Betriebsblind, or what?

You are right on the mark with "adjusted"; it is a question of the medication being adjusted to the patient't needs, no question of "control" here. Except by the doctors, whoc need to control - sorry, CHECK - the patient every so often.

A doctor will "einstellen" a (medication) dose to the patient in the same way a mechanic will adjust the ignition timing on an older car, and I contend the ST writer has been careless with the phraseology.